When Diet and Exercise Has Failed to Produce Any Significant

question 18

Multiple Choice

When diet and exercise has failed to produce any significant weight loss, some patients who are seriously overweight elect to have stomach surgery.A procedure galled gastric sleeve surgery removes more than half of the stomach, leaving a tube (or sleeve) about the size of a banana.Following gastric sleeve surgery, patients would have the least trouble ____.

• A)eating large chunks of food of relatively hard consistency
• B)eating protein-rich foods
• C)eating large amounts of food at one time
• D)eating carbohydrate-rich foods

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